I am Dimitry, I
tsarevich!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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A touching scene, a noble farewell, and all the dreadful trouble
solved--so
conveniently
solved!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Chief
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Heavenward his eyes were raised, and
heavenward
his arms were directed.
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Byron |
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In Dublin the other day I saw a poster
advertising
a play by a Miss
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Yeats |
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freschly
he aske3,
Ferde lest he hade fayled in fourme of his castes;
1296 Bot ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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LXXXIX
The holy man next made the damsel see,
That save in God there was no true content,
And proved all other hope was transitory,
Fleeting, of little worth, and quickly spent;
And urged withal so earnestly his plea,
He changed her ill and
obstinate
intent;
And made her, for the rest of life, desire
To live devoted to her heavenly sire.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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" _Luia
substantivo
et adjectivum
concordat in generi, numerum, et casus_.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Education
alters the Nature, or at least
Character of many, v.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Heaven and Earth and the Sun on his indefatigable journey
Over that
infinite
path never did witness the like!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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She came
close to the bed, and the
terrified
man recognized the Countess.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Triumphal arches, domes at heaven's doors,
That an
astonished
heaven sees full plain,
Alas, by degrees, turned to dust again.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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This is the alchemical fusion of male and female principles which
produces
gold, a process sacred to Hermes Trismegistos.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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I however
Must not omit a Fathers timely care
To
prosecute
the means of thy deliverance
By ransom or how else: mean while be calm,
And healing words from these thy friends admit.
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Milton |
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Stephen Crane |
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Surely, he has
solved some of the
problems
of life.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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from whom our honours spring,
The gods have made thee but by halves a king:
They gave thee sceptres, and a wide command;
They gave
dominion
o'er the seas and land;
The noblest power that might the world control
They gave thee not--a brave and virtuous soul.
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Iliad - Pope |
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What sayest thou to a hare, or the
melancholy
of Moor
Ditch?
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Shakespeare |
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And we would often at the fall of dusk
Wander
together
by the silver stream, 5
When the soft grass-heads were all wet with dew,
And purple-misted in the fading light.
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Sappho |
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For he hears the lambs' innocent call,
And he hears the ewes' tender reply;
He is watchful while they are in peace,
For they know when their
shepherd
is nigh.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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"
Thus while he spoke, the Trojan pale with fears
Approach'd, and sought his knees with suppliant tears
Loth as he was to yield his
youthful
breath,
And his soul shivering at the approach of death.
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Iliad - Pope |
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And strange it is
That nature must compel us to lament
Our most
persisted
deeds.
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Shakespeare |
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" Yet Andreini's mystery suggested Milton's epic; and
Milton, the most
reverent
of poets, doubting whether to throw his work
into the epic form or the dramatic, left, on the latter basis, a rough
ground-plan, in which his intention of introducing the "Heavenly Love"
among the persons of his drama is extant to the present day.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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)
Where has fail'd a perfect return
indifferent
of lies or the truth?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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O pang all pangs above
Is
Kindness
counterfeiting absent Love!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Count
Living
examples
offer greater powers;
A prince learns badly from bookish hours.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Safe in their
alabaster
chambers,
Untouched by morning and untouched by noon,
Sleep the meek members of the resurrection,
Rafter of satin, and roof of stone.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Attirez le gai venin
Des liserons;
Mangez les cailloux qu'un pauvre brise,
Les
vieilles
pierres d'eglises,
Les galets, fils des deluges,
Pains couches aux vallees grises!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I must confess that these
majestic
ruins
Oppress me with their gloom.
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Longfellow |
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So, while the Vessels one by one were speaking,
One spied the little
Crescent
all were seeking:
And then they jogg'd each other, "Brother!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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From this point onward the new tablet takes up a hitherto
unknown portion of the epic,
henceforth
to be assigned to the second
book.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Then each, dishorsed and drawing, lashed at each
So often and with such blows, that all the crowd
Wondered, and now and then from distant walls
There came a
clapping
as of phantom hands.
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Tennyson |
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"
This seemed to please the
mournful
lady more
Than her first thought; and she forthwith bade make
A mantle for her arms, which should imply
Her desperation and desire to die.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Richmond
and Kew
Undid me.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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But let not such dark thoughts a shadow throw
O'er the bright joy this hour
inspires!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Against the
Teucrians
the forces of sky and sea are spent.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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But it is
possible
to enumerate certain characteristics which
distinguish the two kinds of verse.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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guarda qua giuso a la nostra
procella!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Redistribution is subject to the
trademark license, especially
commercial
redistribution.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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But, on this bold excursion, thou
Must take no great
portmanteau
now.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Or whether shall I say, mine eye saith true,
And that your love taught it this alchemy,
To make of monsters and things indigest
Such cherubins as your sweet self resemble,
Creating
every bad a perfect best,
As fast as objects to his beams assemble?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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_The Book of Pilgrimage_
By day Thou are the Legend and the Dream
That like a whisper floats about all men,
The deep and brooding
stillnesses
which seem,
After the hour has struck, to close again.
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Rilke - Poems |
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[Sidenote: To some is given a mixture of good and evil, according
to what is most suitable to the
dispositions
of their minds.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Be this as 't will, since Hymen could not find
Our wight to bear the wedded knot inclined,
The god of love, to manage for him tried,
And what he wished, from time to time supplied;
A lively fair he got, who charms displayed,
And made him father to a little maid;
Then died, and left the spark dissolved in tears:
Not such as flow for wives, (as oft appears)
When
mourning
's nothing more than change of dress:
His anguish spoke the soul in great distress.
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La Fontaine |
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'
"That's the right way to cure a Sprite
Of such-like goings-on--
But
gracious
me!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Now let us go to kneel before the tombs
Of Russia's great
departed
rulers.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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So
slumbered
the stout-heart.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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As, in your field, I plant I lose no grain,
For the harvest
resembles
me, and ever
God orders me to plough, and sow again:
Even for this end are we come together.
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Villon |
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Note: Ixion tried to seduce Juno, but Jupiter
substituted
a cloud for her person.
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Ronsard |
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III
The horsemen and the footmen
Are pouring in amain
From many a stately market-place,
From many a
fruitful
plain,
From many a lonely hamlet,
Which, hid by beech and pine,
Like an eagle's nest, hangs on the crest
Of purple Apennine;
IV
From lordly Volaterrae,
Where scowls the far-famed hold
Piled by the hands of giants
For godlike kings of old;
From seagirt Populonia,
Whose sentinels descry
Sardinia's snowy mountain-tops
Fringing the southern sky;
V
From the proud mart of Pisae,
Queen of the western waves,
Where ride Massilia's triremes
Heavy with fair-haired slaves;
From where sweet Clanis wanders
Through corn and vines and flowers;
From where Cortona lifts to heaven
Her diadem of towers.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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--The beams that broke
From each celestial file with horror struck
The bowyer god, who felt the
blinding
rays,
And like a mortal stood in fix'd amaze;
While on his spoils the fair assailants flew,
And plunder'd at their ease the captive crew;
And some with palmy boughs the way bestrew'd,
To show their conquest o'er the baffled god.
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Petrarch |
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Is there no pity, no
relenting
ruth,
Points to the parents fondling o'er their child?
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Chimene
Elvire, this suffering is enough for me,
Don't
multiply
it with dread augury.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Now since indeed there are those surest bodies
Which keep their nature evermore the same,
Upon whose going out and coming in
And changed order things their nature change,
And all corporeal
substances
transformed,
'Tis thine to know those primal bodies, then,
Are not of fire.
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Lucretius |
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THIS thought consol'd so well,--his
youthful
rays
Returned, and e'en excelled his former days;
And those who lately ridicul'd his charms,
Now anxious seem'd to revel in his arms
'Twas who could have him,--even prudes grew kind;--
By many belles Astolphus was resign'd;
Though still the king retain'd enough, 'twas seen;--
But now let us resume the dwarf and queen.
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La Fontaine |
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In spite of all her care,
Sometimes to keep alive
I
sometimes
do contrive
To get out in the grounds
For a whiff of wholesome air,
Under the rose you know:
It's charming to break bounds,
Stolen waters are sweet,
And what's the good of feet
If for days they mustn't go?
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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"
But
O O O O that
Shakespeherian
Rag--
It's so elegant
So intelligent 130
"What shall I do now?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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[2] Several of the Lakes in the north of England are let out to
different Fishermen, in parcels marked out by
imaginary
lines
drawn from rock to rock.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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or more likely = born,
barn, =
_burned?
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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And these
delicious
meats,
These sauces mixt of spicy treacle and balm.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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No cloud, no relique of the sunken day
Distinguishes
the West, no long thin slip
Of sullen Light, no obscure trembling hues.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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43
This throbbing shows what we
abandoned
44
By the waters that make faint moan 45
Lustre and fame!
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| Question: |
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Unauthenticated
Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 352 ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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_poppied_, because of the sleep-giving
property
of the
poppy-heads.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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I well discern,
How in thine
intellect
already shines
The light eternal, which to view alone
Ne'er fails to kindle love; and if aught else
Your love seduces, 't is but that it shows
Some ill-mark'd vestige of that primal beam.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Something
o' that, I said.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Such flowers, immense, that every one
Usually had as adornment
A clear contour, a lacuna done
To
separate
it from the garden.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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& the hHuman form is no more
The
listning
Stars heard, & the first beam of the morning started back
He cried out to his father, depart!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Where's your
handkerchief?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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or engaged in
business?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Di maraviglia, credo, mi dipinsi;
per che l'ombra sorrise e si ritrasse,
e io,
seguendo
lei, oltre mi pinsi.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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) And Li T'ai-po lived many hundred years
ago, but
Shakespeare
lived at a more recent period.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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The air stole into the streets of towns,
Refreshed the wise,
reformed
the clowns,
And betrayed the fund of joy
To the high-school and medalled boy:
On from hall to chamber ran,
From youth to maid, from boy to man,
To babes, and to old eyes as well.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Arm
yourself
then: Battle you'll have to-day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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But the
solution
offered by Aeschylus did
not satisfy him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Envole-toi bien loin de ces miasmes morbides,
Va te
purifier
dans l'air superieur,
Et bois, comme une pure et divine liqueur,
Le feu clair qui remplit les espaces limpides.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Li Po |
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He drives the crowd and follows at their heels
And bites them through--the
drunkard
swears and reels.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
He was walking up and down, smoking
his
meerschaum
pipe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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then and there,
Falling upon them all, and among them all, enveloping me with the rest,
Appeared the cloud,
appeared
the long black trail;
And I knew Death, its thought, and the sacred knowledge of Death.
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Whitman |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Meredith - Poems |
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20
So once it was with me you stooped to talk
Laughing and
listening
in this very lane:
To think that by this way we used to walk
We shall not walk again!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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The rough burr-thistle,
spreading
wide
Amang the bearded bear,
I turn'd the weeder-clips aside,
An' spar'd the symbol dear:
No nation, no station,
My envy e'er could raise;
A Scot still, but blot still,
I knew nae higher praise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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XXV
A heavy heart, Beloved, have I borne
From year to year until I saw thy face,
And sorrow after sorrow took the place
Of all those natural joys as lightly worn
As the
stringed
pearls, each lifted in its turn
By a beating heart at dance-time.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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This is the end of human beauty:
Shrivelled arms, hands warped like feet:
The
shoulders
hunched up utterly:
Breasts.
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Villon |
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[Eliseus]
& seide, men took al hir good; for hire
hosebonde
dette,
& ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Donne,
seemed a proof with what indignation and contempt a
Christian
may treat
vice or folly, in ever so low, or ever so high a station.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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He was a Gentleman, on whom I built
An
absolute
Trust.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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xvi;
the stanzas on
Castlereagh
in _Don Juan_, _vi.
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Byron |
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With these full oft have I seen Moeris change
To a wolf's form, and hide him in the woods,
Oft summon spirits from the tomb's recess,
And to new fields transport the
standing
corn.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Her tree of life drooped from the root: 260
She said not one word in her heart's sore ache;
But peering thro' the dimness, nought discerning,
Trudged home, her pitcher
dripping
all the way;
So crept to bed, and lay
Silent till Lizzie slept;
Then sat up in a passionate yearning,
And gnashed her teeth for baulked desire, and wept
As if her heart would break.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Reeds in a trice are sprouting and
rustling
in murmuring breezes:
"Midas, o Midas the King--bears the ears of an ass!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Did the fellow imagine
that I looked for any dirty
gratuity?
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Robert Burns |
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Is there no man, is there none,
In whom my beauty will but move
The lust of a
delighted
love;
In whom some spirit of God so thrives
That we may wed our lonely lives?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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